Education: The President Bows Out

When a turn-of-the-century Harvard secretary was asked the whereabouts
of

A. Lawrence Lowell, her immediate answer became a legend. "The
president," she said, "has gone to Washington to call on Mr. Taft."
Many Harvard presidents have earned such awe. Of the four men who have
ruled Harvard since 1869, three were giants among educators Lowell,
Charles W. Eliot and James

B. Conant. The fourth, Nathan Marsh Pusey, a tough, capable and
frequently courageous man, led a more complex university in a time that
sustained few titans. Last week, in a long-awaited move, he announced...